Background
Ardıç was born on 1 February 1952 in Trabzon, a coastal city on the northern Black Sea shores of Anatolia.
Ardıç was born on 1 February 1952 in Trabzon, a coastal city on the northern Black Sea shores of Anatolia.
He also worked as a television commentator in the 1990s. In 1959, he was admitted to the elementary section of Galatasaray High School. He also wrote literary critiques in Yeni Dergi (New Magazine), Politika (Politics) and the Cumhuriyet (The Republic) newspaper.
He is currently a columnist in the Sabah newspaper.
His writing style often contains street slang. He has at times been accused of being a misogynist and of promoting hate speech, charges which he has vehemently denied.
Following his graduation from Galatasaray High School, Ardıç entered Boğaziçi University and graduated from there with a degree in political sciences. Due his interest in theater, his first writings in the early 1970s were mostly theater reviews for the magazine "Tiyatro" (Theater).